POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : How's it pronounced? : Re: How's it pronounced? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 09:16:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How's it pronounced?  
From: Zeger Knaepen
Date: 14 Mar 2000 14:42:49
Message: <38CE9639.5CE4F403@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
No way!!!
If you *can* pronounce it as one word, why would you pronounc it as
three letters?
It says POV, not P.O.V.
So it *is* pov, not p o v.

I have spoken...

ZK

Mike Weber wrote:
> 
> PEE-OH-VEE-ray!
> PEE-OH-VEE-ray!
> PEE-OH-VEE-ray!
> 
> --
> Mike
> 
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> hm: mwe### [at] sciticom  www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> 
> "Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
> news:38ce75ba@news.povray.org...
> > My usual method (others too I'd dare say judging by what I hear) is to say
> > acronyms as words rather than spelled out unless the resulting word sounds
> to be
> > nonsense or unpronounceable.  So to me POV is pahv.
> >
> > Bob


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